About
Arnav Sahu is a Partner at Peak XV Partners, leading the firm's San Francisco office. Previously, he spent four years at Y Combinator managing investments across seed to growth stages, and held investor roles at Spark Capital and Blackstone. He has also worked in corporate development at AppDynamics and Cisco, and co-founded two startups: Wolfia, an AI search platform, and Finvest, a bond investment application.
Experience
- Peak XV PartnersPartnercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Y CombinatorPrincipal2021 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Wolfia (YC)Co-Founder2024
- Bondgrid / FinvestProduct Lead / Founder2023
- Spark CapitalVenture Capital Investor2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Cisco / AppDynamicsSpecial Projects, Bizdev and Corp Dev2017 — 2020San Jose, California, United States
- The Blackstone GroupInvestor2015 — 2017New York City Metropolitan Area
- Forbes Finance CouncilMember2015
- World Economic ForumMember2015
- PostHogBoard & Investor2015
- ReplitInvestor2015
- VapiBoard & Investor2015
- Scale AIInvestor2015
- OpenCodeBoard and Investor2015
- VantaInvestor2015
- FivetranInvestor2015
- SupabaseInvestor2015
- Better AuthInvestor2015
- RipplingInvestor2015
- HashiCorpInvestor2015
Education
- Cornell University
- The Doon School, Dehradun, India
Colleagues at Peak XV Partners
Aadith Ramesh
Associate at Peak XV Partners
Aaditya Sood
Venture Partner at Peak XV Partners
Aakash Kapoor
Principal at Peak XV Partners
Abheek Anand
Managing Director at Peak XV Partners
Abhishek Gupta
Head of IT & Technology at Peak XV Partners
Abhishek Mohan
Managing Director at Peak XV Partners
Akshay Agarwal
Vice President at Peak XV Partners
Alyssa Maharani
Analyst at Peak XV Partners
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Arnav Sahu work?
- Arnav Sahu is Partner at Peak XV Partners.
- What check size does Arnav Sahu write?
- Arnav Sahu typically writes checks of $10K – $100K.
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